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Camden the historian found Birmingham full of ringing anvils, Sheffield ‘a town of great name for the smiths therein,’ Leeds renowned for cloth, and Manchester already a sort of cottonopolis, though the ‘cottons’ of those days were still made of wool. There was a wages question then as...